these lights will inspire you time is here

On the hunt for red lampshades for making my bedroom into a bordello. D.M. will like them because they are “Communist Chic.” I for one, am opposed to “Communist Chic” for many reasons, including, but not limited to, recent weird fetishism of less-recent Soviet past. Still, I am not opposed to red lampshades. I think they would be nice. I will let you know when I find them.

And I reject the slander that I enjoy “communist chic.” Let me go on record as saying that (as Lyndon Johnson might say) I will not seek, and I will not accept, fetishization or *ostalgie* for official communism. Particularly egregious in this regard are the Shepherd Fairey *detournements* of the old Rodchenko designs for Saks…

Incidentally, the picture from La Chinoise at top is Mao-ist chic, really — in other words, the Soviets (by 1967 at least) would not have approved. Mais la citation, ni Mao ni Kosygin, est Godard pur.